April 3, 2024

3 Leadership reflections while mountaineering with my 82-year old father

Dear friends, I am very happy to report that as part of sum people’s repatterning, find below a newsletter by one of the new lead partners: Oliver Henzler. Enjoy the reading and reflecting. Cheers, Ekki I recently turned 50, and to mark the occasion my father and I decided to spend a weekend at the […]

March 19, 2024

Have you ever worked with business constellations?

Dear friends, On Independence Day, 4th of July 2011, I founded sum people, a boutique consulting firm. We help leadership teams to become great teams (on the We-dimension), help leaders take their heart to work (on the I-dimension), and sharpen purpose and performance (on the It-dimension); and we bring the three dimensions together working on […]

July 18, 2023

What can we learn from performance in music?

Dear friends, over the last month I had two opportunities to experiment with musical performance and reflect what one can learn for our work in the business world. The notion of performance is rich and somehow broader in music than it is in the business world. First, there is performance in terms of achievement, i.e. delivering […]

June 28, 2023

What can we learn from Parzival?

Parzival is an epic poem composed in the 13th century by Wolfram von Eschenbach in 16 books and a total of 24'000 lines. Is there anything that this master piece about the hero’s journey of a knight can still teach us today? With a Mountain Wisdom group of 15 business leaders we travelled to Terra […]